Russell baker

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.